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The Grand Canal entrance to Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin PHOTO: PETER MCDERMOTT By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com The last act of the 1...

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. By Colleen Taylor This past week, at the American Conference for Irish Studies, the sounds of the 18th century met the 21’s...

Notify’s new album is “InConcept.” By Daniel Neely As I write, I’m getting ready to head out to St. Louis for Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s North A...

Cormac O’Malley. PHOTO: PETER MCDERMOTT Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Over the past 30 years, Irish-born American lawyer Cormac O’Malley ...

Saoirse Ronan as Eilis Lacey in “Brooklyn.” By Lisa Redmond The film “Brooklyn” tells the story of a young Irish girl, Eilis Lacey, who leaves behi...

Deirdre Kinahan. PHOTO: BARRY CRONIN By Orla O’Sullivan Amid much discussion lately about how few female playwrights get their work produced, Deird...

Gaelic Storm By Colleen Taylor Gaelic Storm is able to churn out upbeat, witty albums like some kind of whimsical Irish cotton mill. I admit I’m in...

Some of the exhibiting artists attending the opening. Photo courtesy IACI. By Irish Echo Staff The Bourn Vincent Gallery at the University of Limer...

By Áine Ní Shionnaigh In 1800 the Acts of Union united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland, abolishing the Irish Parliament. Ir...

FullSet’s latest album is “Notes Between the Lines.” By Daniel Neely It is the week after St. Patrick’s Day. I hope everyone reading out there had ...

Mick Moloney. PHOTO COURTNEY KING/EMERALD By Colleen Taylor This week, Dublin will commemorate the centenary of the Easter Rising. Naturally, music...

Weldon House postcard from the 1940s. Ads in the Brooklyn Eagle. By Pat Fenton The smells, and music and memories of places we remember are who we ...